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Word: mahon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventing wonderful tales about himself. This gains for him the prestige he craves, ("I should have been a knight in shining armor"), but he soon finds it difficult to remember when he is lying and when he is not. He is a Walter Mitty of action; a Christy Mahon without honor...

Author: By George A. Loiper, | Title: Figure of a Girl | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

JOHN MONTGOMERY MAHON Harrisburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Although the Keeper of the Privy Purse had pruned Mahon's verse-a member of the Royal Family must not be named in anything that can be exploited commercially-it was still a comely tribute to Lilibet. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Minuet for Lilibet | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...George Mahon is a 30-year-old songwriter from Glasgow who cannot read music. But he can hum a tune and rhyme a verse, and a month ago he hummed into a recording machine, packed the record and a verse to go with it off to a publisher. Adele England, creator of steps for the Lambeth Walk, which swept England in 1938, heard it and devised a courtly old-world dance to match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Minuet for Lilibet | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...lineups: HARVARD TRINITY Page lf Kirby Mariaschin rf Hayes Hauptfuhrer c Faber Brady lg Mahon Gannon rg Ponsalle

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trinity to Tune Up Quintet For Ivy Home Stretch Drive | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

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